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I have been trying all these things to map my skydrive and i keep getting a windows can not access error. i have tried on windows 7 laptop and windows vista pc.
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I tried this, but when I follow the steps and finally click on finish, it asks me to log in twice, and then it says no access to “\\docs.live.net@SSL\eb2af38eb77672ad\^2Documenten”
and in details it says “errorcode 0x80070043 can’t find networkname” (freely translated from dutch ….. )
Since I don’t have a folder called public I used a folder called ‘Documenten’ and I also used the right username and password of my hotmail account to log in, so I don’t know what the problem might be.

I’ve tried to network map Skydrive over and over, using this method and all others that I’ve read about on the Web, and it NEVER works. It always asks me for my username and password, which I enter correctly, then after about 10 seconds it again asks for my username and password. It never accepts my username and password, even though I know I am inputting it correctly as I have logged into my Skydrive Web account millions of times before.

This is so frustrating. I even tried turning off Windows firewall, thinking that was the problem. To no avail. Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated!

Does not work for me, stuck in a loop asking for may password. I enter the correct password, and the password dialog box comes up again. But hey this is the farthest I’ve ever gotten so the OP must be on the right track – other suggestions culled from the web failed miserably.

I tried this in windows xp sp2 and right after typing in the folder and clicking finish it says ” The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occured: The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.”

I was able to mount my Documents folder using this tip, but not my Public folder.

Then I noticed that, when I was logged into the Skydrive website, files in my “My Documents” folder had /.Documents/ in the URL, whereas files in my Public folder had /Public/ in the URL. I hazarded a guess that the ^2 in ^2Documents represented the period and tried to mount my Public folder with /Public instead of /^2Public.

OK for a concise version that works in 30 seconds
1. http://skydrivesimpleviewer.codeplex.com/ ..unzip the program + dll to c:\ and run from command line
2. copy paste the dumped url into your map network drive folder path
3. replace any ‘/’ forward slashes with ‘\’ back slashes
4. Click finish enter your user/pass and its done

also in Win7.. go to Internet options -> Local Intranet -> Sites ..
add an entry for ‘z:’ or whatever letter the network drive is mapped to
this disables the annoying popup saying you are trying to download files from the internet every time you want to open a document within the drive

again, G’post, I much appreciate this work. will give it a shot and post my findings to add to this important little piece. As a marketeer in the ‘patch’, I would think that at least at this acceptance phase, MS will want to enhance this sort of approach: they should want their “cloud” enticement to work as effortlessly and seamlessly as local fileshare. the one that masters this will sweep the early adopters

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OK, Thanks for the information on how to set up a map drive, workes great. My question, problem, is-How can I make it go to a folder that is not public, I do not want my private documents going to a public folder. Please help. Thanks

I got it to mount, I can copy things that are in it, but when ever I try to upload something to it, no matter its size its says the file is too large for the destination file system? and there is MORE then enough space?